Broadway to Dim Lights in Honor of Tony Winner Ron Silver

The Broadway community will mourn the loss of actor Ron Silver by dimming its lights in his honor on March 18 at 8pm for one minute. Silver died in Manhattan on March 15, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62.

Silver won a 1988 Tony Award for originating the role of Charlie Fox in the Broadway premiere of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut performing with William Hurt, Judith Ivey, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, Jerry Stiller and Sigourney Weaver in the premiere of David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, and also starred in the 1986 comedy Social Security. Off-Broadway, Silver appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club productions of Friends 1983 and Hunting Cockroaches 1987. In addition to co-founding an art-oriented political group, the Creative Coalition, in 1989, Silver served as president of Actors’ Equity Association from 1991 to 2000.

Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, commented via press release, “The intelligence and intensity of Ron Silver’s presence on stage was a gift to live theatre. I’ve enjoyed watching his performances in every medium, but I’m grateful that his extraordinary talent contributed to Broadway’s history of great actors.”